Former chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and current nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi have had a busy two days, testifying before a special parliamentary committee and the Assembly of Experts about the nuclear negotiations and Iran's nuclear program.

Araghchi took the place of chief nuclear negotiator Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is traveling to regional countries, and spoke to the Assembly of Experts on Sept. 2. He said, “Our demands in the nuclear negotiations was respect for our nuclear rights and accepting our country’s rights to move toward research and development, progress and the realization of industrial enrichment and the use of new-generation [centrifuge] machines IR6 and IR8 in order to reach our industrial goals.” Araghchi said they achieved these goals in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Araghchi said that among the biggest achievements of the nuclear talks were the recognition of the UN Security Council of Iran’s right to enrich and the removal of economic and financial sanctions. He added vaguely that arms sanctions on Iran were to be addressed or perhaps removed “in a reasonable time.” 

Araghchi said that Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee were given detailed reports about the JCPOA. He added that the limitations on Iran’s nuclear program “were not forever” but rather in a “clear time frame.”